The dice are real
Sagecraft runs real tabletop mechanics, built on the System Reference Documents 5.1 and 5.2. Not the vibe of dice. Actual dice.
When you roll
At a moment of real stakes (picking a lock under pressure, leaping a collapsing pier, resisting a spell) the table calls for a check. You roll a d20; your hero’s bonuses apply; the result stands.
When the table rolls
Some rolls happen on your behalf: an enemy’s attack, a hidden save, the flow of combat. Every one of them is a real roll, and you see it in the log. Nothing is decided off the books.
What a DC is
Every check is measured against a Difficulty Class, a target number set by the rules for how hard the thing actually is. Meet it or beat it, you succeed. Miss it, and the story takes the harder road. The DC is set before you roll, not after.
Natural 20s and natural 1s
The raw die decides triumph and disaster, exactly as it should. A 20 is a 20 because the die says so, not because the total looks nice.
If a roll matters, it happens
The table is built so a roll is never skipped to keep the story tidy, and never fudged to save you. Success is sweeter when failure was on the table.
Sagecraft uses material from the System Reference Documents 5.1 and 5.2; full attribution in the site footer.
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